You’re only allowed to be right about one thing at a time. That’ll be six-and-a-quarter million dollars for your arrogance, and also how dare you?
Agreeing to an arbitration clause seems to have been critical mistake for this onion.
Arbitration is a scam in any other context besides b2b where parties have similar bargaining power.
I bet union can’t even appeal this pro capital decision either.
Arbitration is pretty much always a scam. Even in b2b settings, a lot of those contracts are not between parties of equal power.
Like, if a small business sets up a business account at a major office supply company, that’s a pretty common example of a b2b contract where the parties have very different power.
Who the hell sides with HCA instead of nurses when there are complaints about staffing shortages and PPE shortages? Ridiculous.
The Arbitrator almost surely paid by HCA.
No proof of that… yet
It’s a pretty sure bet the only reason that an Arbitrator was used was because it’s required by a contract, and required by the hospital. Extremely unlikely the Union would specifically request arbitration rather than a regular trial, they are notorious for siding with big businesses. Also I likely the Union paid for that Arbitrator.
